THAT OFFICER IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION. TONIGHT, A SINKHOLE IN THE HEART OF MEXICAN TOWN IS CAUSING CONCERN. IT OPENED THREE WEEKS AGO, AND THEY SAY IT IS GROWING BIGGER EVERY DAY. GO TO MARA MACDONALD, AND SHE JOINS US FROM SOUTHWEST DETROIT. MARA, THIS IS RIGHT BY THE EVER POPULAR MEXICAN VILLAGE? CARMEN, IT IS. AND LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT WE ARE TALKING B NUMBER ONE, THEY PUT UP CAUTION TAPE. AT LEAST THE BUSINESS OWNER HAS. AND PYLON. BUT THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO SEE. COME HERE. THIS SINKHOLE, TAKE A LOOK. THIS IS NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART. WE'RE TALKING EASILY 15 FEET DEEP. GONZALEZ PUT GOURDS OVER THE HOLE TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT OF THE WAY WHEN IT OPENED OUT OF NOWHERE THREE WEEKS AGO. I WAS TOLD BY DELIVERY PERSONS, THAT CAME OVER, HE SAID THERE IS SOMETHING BAD OUT THERE. I CAME AND I LOOKED AT IT, RIGHT AWAY I TOOK MEASUREMENTS ABOUT PROTECTING THE AREA. THREE WEEKS LATER IT IS STILL HERE. CALLED PUBLIC WORKS THAT TOLD HIM IT IS NOT THEIR PROMPT HE CALLED THE WATER DEPARTMENT. WHO TOLD THEM IT IS NOT THEIR PROBLEM. IT IS PUBLIC WORKS PROBLEM. YOU KNOW WHAT, HE DOESN'T CARE WHOSE PROBLEM IT IS BUT SOMEBODY NEEDS TO FIX IT. I KEPT CALLING THE NEXT DAY. PEOPLE CALLED THEM AS WELL. AND THEY HAVE SWITCHED ME FROM ONE DEPARTMENT TO ANOTHER ONE. IN THE 60 YEARS HIS FAMILY HAS RUN MEXICAN VILLAGE RESTAURANT NEVER HAS THERE BEEN AN ISSUE LIKE THIS. THIS ONE IS SCARY. BACK HERE LIVE. WE WANTED TO TRY TO HELP MR. GONZALEZ OUT SO WE BYPASSED THE WHOLE SHOOTING MATCH AND WENT TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. I SPOKE TO HIS COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR. HE SAID THEY ARE ON IT. THEY WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF IT. EVERYONE HERE AT MEXICAN VILLAGE WANTS IT FIXED BY THE TIME CINCO DE MAYO COMES AROUND BECAUSE THAT'S A LOT OF A FOOT TRAFFIC IN THIS AREA. AND IT IS GETTING BIGGER EVERY DAY.

DETROIT -

A sinkhole appeared three weeks ago along Bagley in the alley next to the popular Mexican Village restaurant, and it's doing nothing but getting bigger.

The hole is more than a foot wide and about 15 feet deep and so far, nothing has been done to repair it.

Severo Gonzalez, who owns the Mexican Village restaurant, has been getting nothing but the run-around from various city departments.

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